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Getting a better night’s sleep can lead to improved physical and mental wellbeing over time

The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board set up a value-based team to collect and analyse data on how its budget is spent. This is helping to get better value for money and improving outcomes for patients with Parkinson’s disease, cataracts and chronic lung disease

Whopping cuts unveiled in budget proposal undermine United States’ leadership in science and technology

New analysis suggests that greater investment in ‘market-creating’ companies – of the kind proposed by EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas – can deliver the productivity growth which is eluding Europe

They invested £487B in the UK in 2015. Now US multinationals are prepared to relocate operations and staff to stay within the single market. The message to the UK government is clear: a hard Brexit will jeopardise investment

Hour-for-hour, they are paid 4 – 5 time less than counterparts in western Europe. But scientists in Slovenia are determined to make up for a lack of government funding and the structural disadvantages facing the country’s research and innovation system

Tech giants in China continue to surge forward with new inventions, leaving the country poised to outpace US and Japan within the next few years. European companies did not see the same rapid growth, but held on to their global share

Scottish researchers eager to maintain EU ties are facing a Brexit quandary: which is the most science-friendly union – the UK or the EU?

More and more jobs are threatened by advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. As the graphs below illustrate, Europe is not prepared for this dislocation

The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource. Agreeing the rules for doing this is a daunting task, says Juan Bicarregui, a member of the expert group that is laying the groundwork